Novels like Alas, the Years Have Wasted My Love
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- 1 Love Turned to Ruin 婚爱成殇 After five years of marriage, Sang Nian still hadn't managed to warm Chi Yi's heart. For the sake of their sick child, she drugged Chi Yi, but all she got in return was his deep-seated hatred and vengeance. She lost the child... 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Thorns and the Silver Crown 荆棘与银冠 Thorns and the Silver Crown 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 I Made Myself a Boyfriend, and Somehow I Fell for Him Despite My Alexithymia 亲手造了个男友，患述情障碍的我竟动了心 I made myself a boyfriend, and somehow, despite my alexithymia, I fell for him. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 I Only Hope We Won't Know Each Other in the Next Life 惟愿来生不相识 On the seventh day after her father's death, she learned she had terminal stomach cancer. Seven months pregnant, she begged him not to make her donate blood to his first love, but he cruelly shoved her to the ground anyway. She would never forget the icy look in his eyes... He thought the document she sent him would be divorce papers. He never imagined it would be her last letter... 82Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 5 I Volunteered to Be a Stand-In and Died, Then His White Moonlight Went Mad 我自愿当替身死后，白月光疯了 After I willingly died as a stand-in, the woman he loved went mad 371Reads—Score614d adds
- 6 Loving You, Even If It Was Only a Fleeting Splendor 爱你纵使繁华一场 After five years of marriage, Mo Sheng still hadn't made Li Yunan fall in love with her. When she learned she had a terminal illness, all she asked for was ten months. “After ten months, I can divorce you. Please, don't hate me.” “What are you playing at?” “I'm tired. I want to be free.” Childhood sweethearts may grow apart as time goes by. Mo Sheng had loved Li Yunan for thirteen years, while he gave all his love to another woman. As she suffered through a pain unlike anything she had ever endu 23Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 7 Tonight, the Stars Look Just Like You 今夜星辰恰似你 When she woke again, her world was dark and cold, without a glimmer of light... Yet even then, that man still showed her no mercy. He personally sent her to the gates of hell... Later, he went mad and paid for her with his life... In this devastating love story, who truly came out on top? 16Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 8 The Green Hills Can’t Match the Length of Your Brows 青山不及你眉长 Five years of marriage, five years of coldness. Yan Shuya loved completely and loved humbly. She never regretted loving a man named Han Chenyang, not even in the final second of her life... 30Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 9 Love So Deep, Desolation to the Bone 用情至深，刺骨荒凉 To save the woman he loved, she lay on the operating table and endured the agony of having her kidney removed. But she never imagined he could be cruel enough to have their child taken from her with his own hands, cause her parents’ deaths, and finally drive her to the end of her rope… 90Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 10 Years Have Passed, and Our Happy Ending Is Gone 至此经年，佳期永别 On the day Qiu Xueke married Qin Zichuan, she was overjoyed, thinking the happiness she had waited so long for had finally arrived. But who could have guessed that what knocked at her door wasn't happiness, but a nightmare? In that marriage, she lost her soul and her heart, and in the end, she lost everything... 22Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 11 Just in Time to Say Goodbye 刚好就此再见 Xia Zinuo spent five years trying to warm the heart of the man she loved, but failed. Her leukemia returned, and her love rival came back. Qin Yihan would rather have died himself. Xia Zinuo was already in such a miserable state, and now things had become truly unbearable. “Qin Yihan, stay with me for three months. Let me know what it feels like to be loved, too.” At the end of her life, Xia Zinuo pleaded with him. “Keep dreaming,” Qin Yihan coldly refused. Qin Yihan had long looked forward to d 6Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 12 Fish Do Not Venture into Deep Woods 鱼不赴深林 Fish Don't Head for the Deep Woods 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Love Imprisoned to the Bone 蚀骨囚宠 He used love and hate to drive her mad, yet still refused to let her go. She died smiling before his eyes, leaving him with the deepest sorrow imaginable. 82Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 14 An Undying Love 痴爱不渝 Ning Wu loves Yan Xiao with all her heart, but Yan Xiao hates her to the core. For the sake of a promise Yan Xiao made as a boy, Ning Wu stakes everything on winning his love, only to lose in the end. In the final moments of her life, she watches Yan Xiao marry someone else before turning and walking away. What she doesn’t know is that after she leaves, Yan Xiao searches for her like a madman... 181Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 15 Gu Nian's Deep Love 顾念情深 He said, “Gu Nian, wait for me a little longer. I promise I’ll make you happy.” She remembered what he had said so many years ago. Four years later, he came back. He returned as Jiangcheng’s most powerful man. Pinning her against the cold wall, he gritted his teeth and said, “Love me? You’re not worthy!” “Why don’t you just die?” And she really was going to die. 109Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 16 A Tortured Love Between Human and Ghost: The Bricklayer 人鬼虐恋之泥瓦匠 A Tragic Love Between a Man and a Ghost: The Bricklayer —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Last Night's Stars, Last Night's Breeze 昨夜星辰昨夜风 After a car accident, I somehow became the culprit who killed my younger sister! To avenge her, Ji Sichen cruelly took the baby I'd carried for ten months and imprisoned me! “Please, let me see my baby, even just once...” His cold, curt reply struck like a slap: “You're nothing but a murderer. You don't deserve to be his mother!” 7Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 18 Nothing Hurts More Than Loving You 最痛不过我爱你 Zhou Ansheng killed himself, just as she wished. He gave Mrs. Xiao's place to the woman he cherished most. She loved him for so many years, and lost everything: her self-respect and pride, her closest family, her family business, and even the child she had yet to carry to term... Blood from her wrists stained the flowers along the road to the underworld, and every blossom knew how deeply she had loved him! She said, “I hope there is no next life. I hope we never meet again. The most painful thin 26Reads5.4Score414d adds
- 19 Forget Longing, Forget You 忘了相思忘了你 Qian Rong's love for Jin Hengbei is a conviction that even illness cannot destroy. 112Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 20 The Love You Gave Me Cuts to the Bone 你给的爱残情蚀骨 Shen Qing loved Fu Yihan for six years, so much that she was willing to give him everything... But in the end... what a terrible, irredeemable fate awaited her! 78Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 21 He Came Along, and It Was Like Being Intoxicated by the World 他来恰似人间中毒 Shiyi loved with humility, fearlessness, and despair. In the end, she lost her body and her life. In this heart-wrenching love affair, blades flashed without end, and no one could win. The ending was tragic because she realized the truth too late, while Lou Qianhua had understood it all too clearly from the very beginning. 123Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 22 No One Will Ever Be Like You Again 从此无人再像你 Much later, Shen Muchen finally understood that no one would ever love him more than she loved her own life again. 48Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 23 You Are Everything in My Memories 记忆深处，你是全部 What does it feel like to love someone yet be forced to hate her? Tang Junhao woke night after night with his heart torn apart, wishing he could rip the three characters “Su Qingyi” out of his mind, but no matter how much he suffered, he couldn’t do it. He thought tormenting her would make him feel a little better. But when Su Qingyi vanished from his life completely, he panicked... It turned out that, deep in my memories, you were everything! 21Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 24 In the Name of Love 以爱之名 Shen Moran thought she was living a happy life. She had a husband who loved her and a family who adored her. But everything changed overnight. Her father was accused of leaking trade secrets and sentenced to ten years in prison. The accuser was none other than the husband who had promised to love her forever. That day, Shen Moran’s world came crashing down. The husband she loved so deeply became a complete stranger overnight. He deceived her, lied to her, and tormented her. He said the cruelest 40Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 25 I Love You, I Deserve to Die 我爱你，我该死 Song Xixi spent more than a decade loving a man. In the end, she died at the hands of the person she loved most. He wanted her kidney, and she gave it to him. He wanted her life, and she gave it to him. He wanted her to turn back and love him once more, but she knew there was no going back... 166Reads5.0Score—14d adds
- 26 You Never Once Chose Me 你从不曾偏爱我 Throughout their three years of marriage, she kept hoping he would turn around and look at her. But his heart belonged only to the woman he cherished most. When he caused their child’s death, she turned away in despair. Yet he grabbed her hand and said, “I don’t want a divorce!” 80Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 27 You Are My Fated Calamity 你是我命定的劫 Su Qian vanished without a trace, dead or alive. All that remained at the crime scene was half a forearm... He said, “Su Qian, you have no one to blame but yourself. You did too many terrible things and left yourself no way out.” In the mouth of the true culprit, all of it was dismissed with a casual, “You got what you deserved.” On a rainy night, sitting in her wheelchair and watching a truck race toward her, she laughed softly. “Shen Yihan, at last I can stop loving you...” 201Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 28 The Whole World Knows I Love You 全世界都知道我爱你 Everyone knew Gu Sihan loved Ye Nanfeng, and everyone knew Ye Nanfeng loved Tang Xuerou. But that did nothing to weaken Gu Sihan's resolve to love Ye Nanfeng. Loving him was like an addiction she couldn't kick. Gu Sihan screamed hysterically, “She's the one with a wicked heart! She got what she deserved!” Ye Nanfeng gripped her throat viciously. “A vicious woman like you being violated? Now that's what you... deserve!” That day, he pushed her into a hell from which there was no return. Later, sh 104Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 29 Tearing My Heart Apart for You 为你撕心裂爱 What does it mean to love deeply? To be doomed beyond redemption, or ground to dust? Ruan Zhenzhen's heart died at the moment she lay dying, her child was lost, and her grandfather was grieved to death. After rising from the ashes, the man who regretted everything knelt before her and begged for forgiveness. But how can a dead heart come back to life? “Huo Sinian, the only way I'll forgive you is if you die!” 185Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 30 I’ll Give Our Love Back to You 我把爱情还给你 Gu Qingrang, loving you is too exhausting. 56Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 31 After I Died, Everyone Was Left to Regret It 我死后，全员火葬场 After I Died, Everyone Held a Cremation for Me 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 A Cool Breeze Rises 萧萧凉风生 I love the wind! The wind is free, boundless, and unfettered. It can turn the leaves, lift a skirt, and travel the world. But I’m trapped in my own endless darkness, locked inside a prison of my own making. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Your Coldness Outlasts My Love 情深不及你薄凉 During their three years of marriage, Song Yun tried to win his heart and make him hers. Then the woman he had always treasured returned, and a divorce agreement caught her completely off guard. Song Yun had given him so much and helped him gain the power he held today, yet for the sake of the woman he loved, he forced her to donate her corneas! Song Yun was left battered and broken. A car accident finally set her free, but she had no idea that he had gone mad searching for her… 8Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 34 Loving You Is a Calamity 我爱你，是一场劫 Mo Xiaoruan said, “I want to see this world only because I want to see you.” But Su Zheyu replied, “I will never love you, not in this lifetime...” Fine, then I choose to stop seeing this world, and stop seeing you... After five years of marriage, she used a method that destroyed herself, hoping to make him suffer unbearably... 99Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 35 Strangers for the Rest of Our Lives 此生陌路不复 When Chu Junmo forcibly tears open her wound, leaving it drenched in blood, Li Fuyi knows she must pay for the crime she committed at eighteen. Because of him, she found the light; because of him, she descended into eternal night. There are no winners in this battle. There are only two people doomed to endless ruin. 606Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 36 Clouds Drift Away, Yet the Clear Evening Sky Remains 一云归去，不负晚晴 When he drove her to her death, he said, “I will never regret what I did to you!” So she fell from a high-rise, shattered beyond recognition. Yet he searched the whole world, desperate to find even a trace of her… 110Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 37 You Are the Only Light in My Life 你是我生命里唯一的光 You are the only light in my life 35Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 38 Captive Phoenix in His Arms: The Ruthless Emperor's Prisoner 俘凰入罗帷，狠戾帝君掌心囚 When the Cangxuan Kingdom fell, its legitimate eldest princess, once revered and surrounded by every luxury, was cast from her heavenly heights into the deepest hell. Chu Yan had once been held hostage in Cangxuan. When he was being humiliated, the kingdom’s eldest princess, Fan Hua, came to his rescue. They grew up together and fell in love, but a conspiracy made Chu Yan hate the entire Cangxuan royal family. After years of plotting, he destroyed her kingdom, trampled on her dignity, and forced 273Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 39 My Heart Remains as It Was 妾心如故 He hated her. In a single night, he slaughtered her entire family. He hated her, and wanted nothing more than to torture her to death, drawing blood from her heart every day for the woman he cherished. But when he used the same hands stained with her family’s blood to kill her child, she laughed bitterly, and her black hair turned white overnight. This time, she was the one who hated him, but he was the one who regretted it. “Ling Yumo, this hatred has seeped into my blood and carved itself into 60Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 40 His Unhealthy Need to Control Me 他对我的病态掌控欲 Lu Mo was the love of her youth, but now he is the devil making her life a living hell. 274Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 41 Reunited in the Heart of the Lake 重逢，在湖光深处 One shake brought two people thousands of miles apart together, but their growing connection was burdened by too many things beyond their control. What is meant to be will come to pass; what isn’t, cannot be forced. It’s just a shame… 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 You Said Love Wouldn’t Hurt This Much 你说爱情那么伤 Shen Siting never imagined that Gu Xixi would die. He was furious at her schemes and hated her betrayal. He tortured her like a madman and drove her to flee. He thought all he felt for her was disgust and hatred, but the moment he found her body, his heart felt as if it had been torn apart. Blinded by hatred, he became a prisoner of love. How fortunate Shen Siting was, and yet how tragic; he was hateful, pitiful, and deserving of pity. An Yang said she cursed him to lose the person he loved fore 988Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 43 Late at Night, I Fell into the Cold Abyss of Your Heart 深夜，堕入你凉薄的深渊 Three years ago, their marriage was a cruel act of coercion and conquest. After losing her child and being torn from the one she loved, Su Liyue learned that she was merely a dead woman’s substitute. She burned their ill-fated relationship to the ground. Only after losing her did Qin Yanfeng realize that he loved her to the depths of his soul. He was consumed by regret and went mad with grief. Three years later, the familiar woman returned, but she was no longer his Yue’er... 81Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 44 Cold-Blooded CEO, I Can Never Love You Again 嗜血冷总，再也爱不起你 After going to prison, she never loved Leng Qianhan again. The man knelt before her, weeping and pleading. “Qingqian, for the sake of our child, give me a chance. Could you love me one more time? Our child has grown up without a father or mother. He needs a father's love and a mother's love. Let's give him a complete family. We can all be happy...” The woman immediately recoiled. “I don't have a child! My baby is dead. He died as soon as he was born. You cut him out of me and threw him in the tr 335Reads5.9Score1314d adds
- 45 A Marriage Plot Gone Awry 婚图不轨 A Marriage Plot Gone Awry 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Road Ahead Is One of Heartbreak 此去离殇 “You never deserved to be my wife.” Once, she had loved him with all her heart, only to be met with his cold rejection. Time passed, and she died before his eyes. All the love she had never gotten to confess became a sharp sword plunging into his heart… 238Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 47 Han Jinshen, We Lost Our Baby! 韩晋深，我们的孩子没了！ On the day of the first snowfall, Han Jinshen received two packages. One contained the ashes of the baby in Wan Yin’s womb. The other contained… Wan Yin’s ashes… Cradling the ashes of mother and child, Han Jinshen began to vomit blood! 1.3kReads7.0Score—14d adds
- 48 A Marriage at a Crossroads 婚途陌路 Strangers on the Road to Marriage 49Reads—Score714d adds
- 49 A Broken Mirror Cannot Be Mended 破镜难重圆 Childhood sweethearts, married for ten years. Fu Shiyu came back with Shen Jiaman in his arms and forced Xia Ran to design her wedding dress. Xia Ran had poured her heart and soul into Fu Shiyu, yet could only watch helplessly as he caused their child’s death... Fu Shiyu, in the end, you and I were never meant to find happiness together. 22Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 50 Regret Came Too Late 迟来的悔意晚到 Regret Came Too Late 16.5kReads—Score7414d adds
